• 20 Tweets Only People Who Grew Up with a Nigerian Mother Can Understand

    Sweet mother.

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    The Nigerian mother is seriously one of a kind. Her amazing ability to go from whooping your ass with an eba stick to lovingly rubbing your head really needs to be studied.

    Although this may seem like a totally random generalization, it’s actually a very valid one. And these tweets and the amount of retweets they gathered in agreement, just further validate that point.

    1. The Paranoia

    https://twitter.com/boluososami/status/626712586004860928

    2. The Discipline

    3. The Telepathy

    4. The Sass

    5. The Expectation

    6. The Amnesia

    https://twitter.com/SemilooreAkoni/status/626520240042733568

    7. The Guilt Tripping

    https://twitter.com/rocboifabulouz/status/626490542432632832

    8. The Invincibility

    9. The Sarcasm

    10. The Technophobia

    11. The ‘Helping’

    https://twitter.com/iam_Raice/status/626473269068234752

    12. The Haggling

    13. The Indecisiveness

    14. The ‘Fight’

    https://twitter.com/saaboi_/status/626460498670813184

    15. The Forgetfulness

    16. The Warning

    https://twitter.com/TweetLikeNICOLE/status/626401105824583680

    17. The Child Slavery

    https://twitter.com/Humour_Island/status/626399089912098816

    18. The Inhuman Precision

    19. The Glare

    https://twitter.com/Nutty_may/status/626363848107409408

    20. The Suspicion


    Nigerian mothers really are the best. So, what’s your favorite ‘Nigerian mother’ behavior? Please, sound off in the comments section

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